Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballynilard, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynilard
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46545, -8.19558
- SMR number
- TS066-068004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Holy well (TS066-065----) 257m to NW. No surface remains visible of any children's burial ground in vicinity of church (TS066-068001-) or cross (TS066-068002-). According to the OS letters there was a local tradition that this place had been a burial ground for unbaptised children, though this practise had ceased by 1840 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 36).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.